Sony has broken its streak beautifully bringing its biggest games to PC. The Last of Us just arrived on Steam and 67% of user reviews are negative. Beyond crashes and excessive VRAM use, it’s not Steam Deck Verified and doesn’t run well there, despite game creator Neil Druckmann’s tweet last December suggesting it would “grace” the portable.
Guess that’s why Sony didn’t send journalists review codes until today!
Sure, you could download Dolphin for free any number of ways — but this one should make it that much easier for, say, Steam Deck owners to experience. (While saying nothing of the sort, the announcement comes with a low-resolution 16:10 screenshot to tease such possibilities.)
ETA: Q2 2023. Price: free.
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Amazon’s Astro is now $1,599 and still requires an invite; the company originally said it’d go from $999 to $1,449 once the invite-only period was over.
But hey, act now and you can get it for the low, low price of $66.67 a month for 24 months! Sigh. Here’s our Astro review.
We checked out a sweet CT scanner, and we’re bringing you gadget scans each week! Here’s what you’d see inside the second-gen Apple Pencil if you had X-ray vision. More at our TikTok and Instagram.
“A new journey begins,” the Meta Quest competitor teased three days ago. “Save the date: 22 March 2023.” But despite having one of the single biggest booths at GDC, Pico had nothing to reveal.
An employee there tells me Pico planned to release the promising Pico 4 in the US — but it’s waiting, because its parent company is currently getting grilled in Washington over a better-known product: TikTok.
The modular repairable laptop company has managed to create a new 61Wh battery that fits in the exact same space as its previous 55Wh pack, thanks to a new chemistry.
That’s only 11 percent better, but when’s the last time you made an old laptop last longer than when you bought it brand-new?
